page_title: Nuclear Alert (Buck Danny)
section_title: Behind the scenes
hierarchical_section_title: Nuclear Alert (Buck Danny) / Behind the scenes
caption_attribution_description: English: Heads of State at the Cancun North-South Economic Summit of 1981 at the Cancun Sheraton Hotel Beach in Mexico. From left to right, front row: Ronald Reagan (USA), Simeon Aké (Côte-d'Ivoire), Abdus Sattar (Bangladesh), Chadli Bendjedid (Algeria), Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FRG), Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Canada), Jose Lopez Portillo (Mexico), Prince Fahd (Saudi Arabia), Willibald Pahr (Austria), Ramiro Saraiva Guerreiro (Brazil), Zhao Ziyang (China), Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines).Back row: Sergej Kraigher (Yugoslavia), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania), Margaret Thatcher (UK), Zenko Suzuki (Japan), Forbes Burnham (Guyana), François Mitterrand (France), Indira Gandhi (India), Alhaji Shehu Shagari (Nigeria), Thorbjörn Fälldin (Sweden), Luis Herrera Campins (Venezuela), Kurt Waldheim (UN) Español: Reunión de jefes de estado en la cumbre "Norte-Sur" de Cancún, México. Français&#160;: Chefs d'État et de gouvernement à la Conférence Nord-Sud de Cancún, au Cancun Sheraton Hotel Beach in Mexico.
context_page_description: Nuclear Alert is the thirteenth story arc in Buck Danny, a Franco-Belgian comic book series by Jean-Michel Charlier and Francis Bergèse.
context_section_description: The scenario of "Nuclear Alert" is filled with real-life events and characters from the 1980s. First among these is the rise of international terrorism; the fictional group IFARG was inspired by the real-life Provisional Irish Republican Army, Baader Meinhoff Gang, and Islamic Jihad Organization. President Reagan is also a regular character in "The Pilots from Hell" and "Fire From Heaven", making him the second American president featured in the Buck Danny novels, as John F. Kennedy had previously appeared in the 1962 novel Les Voleurs de Satellites ("Satellite Thieves"). Finally, the Cancun trade summit targeted by the terrorists was an actual event, the North–South Summit on International Cooperation and Development, taking place from October 21 to October 24, 1981.
  The three "Nuclear Alert" novels were the first in "Buck Danny" not to have been drawn by Victor Hubinon because of the artist's death in 1979. Instead, Charlier chose younger artist Francis Bergèse, who was himself a longtime fan of "Buck Danny" as well as a former military pilot, to work with him. Bergèse has provided the drawing for every novel since, and was also left in charge of the story after Charlier's death.
caption: Heads of State and government at the North–South Summit in Cancun; 23 October 1981.
   From left to right, front row: Reagan (USA), Houphouët-Boigny (Côte-d'Ivoire), A. Sattar (Bangladesh), Chadli (Algeria), Genscher (FRG), Trudeau (Canada), Lopez Portillo (Mexico), Fahd (Saudi Arabia), Pahr (Austria), Saraiva (Brazil), Zhao (China), Marcos (Philippines).
  Back row: Kraigher (Yugoslavia), Nyerere (Tanzania), Thatcher (UK), Suzuki (Japan), Burnham (Guyana), Mitterrand (France), I. Gandhi (India), Shagari (Nigeria), Fälldin (Sweden), Herrera (Venezuela), Waldheim (UN)
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